Author of books:The First Cities (1968, poetry)Cables to Rage (1970, poetry)From a Land Where Other People Live (1973, poetry)The New York Head Shop and Museum (1974, poetry)Coal (1976, poetry)Between Our Selves (1976, poetry)The Black Unicorn (1978, poetry)The Uses of the Erotic, The Erotic as Power (1978, nonfiction)The Cancer Journals (1980, memoir)Zami, A New Spelling of My Name (1982, novel)Sister Outsider (1984, essays)Our Dead Behind Us (1986, poetry)A Burst of Light (1988, memoir)Undersong, Chosen Poems Old and New (1992, poetry)